Managing Director of the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, has revealed that some individuals in the political space and friends have called to register their displeasure with the ongoing mass disconnection by the company.
Barely 48 hours after the ECG began the exercise, Mr Samuel Dubik Mahama said he had received numerous calls for him to halt the initiative.
When asked if the calls came in from politicians, power brokers and friends by JoyNews’ Evans Mensah, he said “It cuts across. (they say) can you hold off? No, hold off as to what?”
“Please let’s just do the right thing because I don’t even have the moral right after sending somebody out of the office to pick up the phone and call him and say ‘hello, can you cut X, Y and Z slack? No’ then what is the moral of the exercise?” the ECG boss added.
According to Mr Mahama, the ongoing revenue mobilisation exercise being carried out by his out is not politically motivated.
Samuel Dubik Mahama says concerns that the exercise is being targeted at some party’s political base are unfounded and should be treated with the utmost contempt.
He stressed that he has no intention to politicise his office or mandate.
“I don’t see myself as doing politics, I see myself now as a technocrat. The biggest mistake we could ever do is to politicise the work done by this office.
“So for me, your electricity bill doesn’t have a party colour…your electricity bill is red, gold, and green with a black star in the middle, that’s your electricity bill. So believe me, as I said, the status quo balances straight out,” he said.
